Good: I've been able to get PHP working on my Caddy webserver.

Bad: I cannot get heterogeneous indexing working.
That's the thing where, in Apache, you say:
Index index.php index.cgi index.html index.htm
and it will pick the right thing.

Oh, there is a similar directive on Caddy, but when I set it, rather than running the "index.php" script when it exists, it tries to *download* it!

I can't find any examples of this use-case out there in internet-land. They seem to think that people only do all-static or all-php websites, not a mixture.

It's not a weird edge-case, people! It OUGHT to be TRIVIAL!

#Caddy #Webserver #Linux #LinuxWomen

I have been battling with Caddy today. Some slight progress has been made; one can use fcgiwrap to provide CGI, so that's okay.

What is baffling me is that if I tell it to use the fastcgi transport for the matcher "/cgi/*" (all files under /cgi) then it works, but if I try to use the matcher "path *.cgi" (all paths ending with '.cgi') then it doesn't work any more; it serves up the CGI file as a plain text file, rather than running it.

Every single example I have found in regard to setting up for CGI, uses the prefix style of matcher, there are no examples for a suffix matcher. None whatsoever. I had to keep on looking over the Caddy documentation to check whether suffix matchers were actually legal and whether I was defining it incorrectly. But according to the docs, it should be valid. So WHY is it IGNORING my CGI files? ARRRRGHHHHH!

#Caddy #Webserver #Linux #LinuxWomen

I tried setting up #Caddy webserver today (https://caddyserver.com). I liked the look of it when I came across it recently; some cool features, and a less arcane configuration than Apache.

Unfortunately, I got to a level of frustration that had me yelling at the sky. Some things Just Work, nicely. Other things... don't. Setting up a reverse proxy to a backend application is trivial. Trying to get CGI to work... nope. Because it isn't a standard feature. It requires a third-party plugin which can't be downloaded (the web page where one is supposed to download it from has an apology notice there). It is, apparently possible to get these plugins if you build Caddy from source with the special "xcaddy" script intended for developers.

I was given the impression from various people that Caddy was a viable, production-ready webserver. Apparently not.

Should I bother continuing to try to get it to work?

#Linux #LinuxWomen #Webserver

i watched this initially with scepticism, then interest, then laughter. for peeps like me who use a mobile phone solely for calls & texts, nothing online, for which all that latter is done on linux pooters using hardened browsers & vpn etc, all these rwnj attempts to thieve private data from unwary peeps for political control & crass commercialisation, are little short of hilarious.

i get it that some peeps sadly are forced for work purposes to have to use evil empire google microsoft apple junk, but i absolutely do not get it that such peeps then continue to use this same junk for their personal lives, when entirely $-free FOSS options are all there waiting for them.

odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/A…

honestly, digital darwinism -- often i can't decide if it's just more funny than serious.

#AgeVerification #DataTheft #PrivacyTheft #privacy #paedophilia #fascism #rwnj #skyfairydelusionalism #FOSS #Linux #LinuxWomen #FuckRWNJs #FuckTechbros #DigitalDarwinism

odd. i thought my  had lost all my existing tab-notes, which wouldn't have been a catastrophe but would have been disappointing. on a whim i thought to recheck about:config for its current boolean value of my previously manually-enabled browser.tabs.notes.enabled, & thus found it had reverted to false during some very recent update. i flipped it back to my desired true, & voila, my existing tab-notes are once more visible & editable, with new ones "creatable".

#FirefoxNightly #TabNotes #dropbearpooterising #LinuxWomen

oh wotta highly irritating article name!

makeuseof.com/why-2026-is-offi…

given i am passionately following progress of the Project Banana / KDE Linux atomic immutable project, & read everything i come across about it, when i saw this article prominently headlined with "KDE Linux" i jumped on it with glee.

pffffft, it's nothing of the kind, being merely a poorly named article about the Plasma DE itself, not the actual [alpha] distro. baaaah! 🙄🤦‍♀️

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
 #Kinoite |   #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
 #SparkyLinux |  #Kalpa |   #KDELinux
 #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery